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Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:58:03 -0500Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:10:53 -0500Religious Right Cheers On Vladimir Putin As Anti-LGBT Violence In Russia Surgeshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/religious-right-cheers-vladimir-putin-anti-lgbt-violence-russia-surges
<p>While most of the news on Russia this week has been focused on the country&rsquo;s ongoing financial collapse, it is important to highlight a report released by Human Rights Watch on Monday <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/15/russia-impunity-anti-lgbt-violence" target="_blank">documenting the rise of anti-LGBT violence in Russia</a> along with the ways the government, which recently passed new laws curbing LGBT rights, has ensured virtual impunity for the perpetrators of such attacks. Following the report&rsquo;s release, Russia <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnaDolgov/status/544599721084719104" target="_blank">added</a> a LGBT legal aid group to a list of NGOs that must register as &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_foreign_agent_law" target="_blank">foreign agents</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The uptick in violence against LGBT Russians certainly won't discourage Religious Right activists from supporting Putin, many of whom also seem more than willing to ignore his <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-death-toll-nears-5000-more-quarter-deaths-september-ceasefire-1757823" target="_blank"> deadly incursion into Ukraine </a> , <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cbn-denounces-putins-suppression-religious-freedom-joins-anti-gay-kremlin-summit" target="_blank"> support for laws curbing the freedoms of Russian evangelical Christians </a> and <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/24/russia-worst-human-rights-climate-post-soviet-era" target="_blank">other human rights abuses</a>.</p>
<p>Nothing, it seems, can dissuade many of Putin&rsquo;s American supporters, several of whom recently attended <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/moscow-forum-attended-american-activists-ends-call-more-gay-propaganda-bans" target="_blank"> an anti-LGBT conference at the Kremlin</a>, from believing that the U.S. should adopt anti-gay laws modeled on Russia&rsquo;s, such as a ban on gay &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; and adoption by same-sex parents.</p>
<p>In fact, many Religious Right activists in the U.S. believe that Putin is on a mission from God to save Russia, and the world, from the LGBT community.</p>
<p><strong>Crush on Putin</strong></p>
<p>It is no secret that many conservatives have fallen under Putin&rsquo;s spell.</p>
<p>Matt Drudge has called Putin the &ldquo;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/06/a-right-wing-media-star-is-born-vladimir-putin/195756">leader of the free world</a>.&rdquo; Sarah Palin has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/04/for-russia-with-love-right-wing-media-mad-for-v/198324"> fawned over the Russian leader&rsquo;s wrestling abilities</a>. Franklin Graham has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-endorses-vladimir-putins-anti-gay-crackdown">hailed</a> Putin for &ldquo;protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda&rdquo; and having &ldquo;taken a stand to protect his nation&rsquo;s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.&rdquo; Larry Jacobs of the World Congress of Families, the group that helped organize the Kremlin meeting, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-praises-russian-laws-preventing-gays-corrupting-children">praised</a> Putin last year for &ldquo;preventing [gay people] from corrupting children.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Religious Right leader and Iowa GOP kingmaker Bob Vander Plaats has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bob-vander-plaats-praises-russia-s-ban-pro-gay-rights-speech">upheld Putin as a world leader in morality</a>. Josh Craddock, who represents Personhood USA at the United Nations, came back from the Kremlin conference <a href="http://www.aleteia.org/en/world/article/russia-positions-herself-as-a-light-to-the-world-during-pro-family-conference-5884810316742656"> cheering </a> on Russia as a &ldquo;light to the world.&rdquo; Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-fears-everyone-will-go-gay-under-marriage-equality">expressed offense</a> last year that Obama would dare criticize Putin.One Fox News host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/08/26/fox-host-requests-putin-be-us-president-for-48/200559">wished</a> that Putin could be president of the United States, even for just 48 hours.</p>
<p>Any violence against Russian gays, one Religious Right group explained, is probably &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/massresistance-kissing-provoked-violent-anti-gay-attack-moscow">provoked by homosexual activists</a>.&rdquo; Massachusetts-based pastor Scott Lively, who has taken credit for inspiring Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; law, dismissed anti-LGBT violence in Russia as a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-video-anti-gay-violence-russia-hoax">hoax</a>&rdquo; and told right-wing radio show host Linda Harvey that if violent anti-gay incidents occur, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-gay-people-behind-anti-gay-violence-russia">other gay people were likely the perpetrators</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>God Will Favor Russia Instead Of America, Thanks Obama</strong></p>
<p>Anti-gay activists think that God has decided to bless Russia, thanks to Putin&rsquo;s leadership, while punishing the U.S. for passing rebellious gay rights laws. Pat Buchanan clearly articulated this mindset in a column in April titled &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-buchanan-suggests-god-russias-side">Is God Now On Russia&rsquo;s Side</a>?,&rdquo; in which he likened the U.S. and Western Europe to Sodom and Gomorrah and cheerfully proclaimed that &ldquo;Putin is planting Russia&rsquo;s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In a February column, Don Feder of the World Congress of Families <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-spokesman-putin-will-save-america-heady-elixir-sexual-rights">gushed</a>&nbsp;that Putin had become the new Ronald Reagan: &ldquo;As my friend and Russian pro-family leader Alexey Komov likes to say: 'Under Reagan, America helped to save us from communism. We'd like to return the favor.'&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lively <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-obama-antichrist-working-satanic-gays-bring-about-apocalypse">made the case</a> last year that Putin is &ldquo;the only world leader capable of standing up to the West&rdquo; and could &ldquo;inspire all the morally conservative countries of the world to adopt a similar law that he just adopted.&rdquo; In the same interview, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-obama-antichrist-working-satanic-gays-bring-about-apocalypse">Lively called Obama the Antichrist</a>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The country that&rsquo;s acting like it&rsquo;s part of the kingdom of the Antichrist is the United States of America, and Russia is standing against homosexual marriage, they&rsquo;re standing for traditional family values,&rdquo; Religious Right radio host Rick Wiles <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-gay-rights-will-turn-america-antichrist-kingdom-spark-nuclear-attack">said</a> in September. &ldquo;The United States is exporting its wickedness, we&rsquo;re using our power and might to force nations to change their laws to accept abortion, to accept homosexual marriage and homosexual rights, so which country is part of the Antichrist system and which is not?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wiles even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-military-under-attack-jesus-hating-demon-possessed-people-who-despise-christian-c">predicted</a> that the U.S. would soon go to war against Russia &ldquo;with an atheistic, Jesus-hating, pro-homosexual, pro-lesbian, pro-transgender military and we're going to go up against another military carrying a Christian cross.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>Bring Anti-Gay Laws To The U.S.</strong></p>
<p>Anti-gay activist Matt Barber said earlier this year that it was &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-staver-want-see-russian-anti-gay-laws-right-here-united-states">encouraging</a>&rdquo; to see more anti-gay measures coming out of Russia, adding that he would like to see laws that &ldquo;stop this homosexual activist propaganda from corrupting children in our nation and we need to see that right here in the United States.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Peter LaBarbera <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-us-should-adopt-russia-style-gay-propaganda-law-stop-disney-promoting-lesbianism-k">called</a> Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; law an &ldquo;acceptable&rdquo; and necessary way to stop companies like Disney from &ldquo;promoting lesbianism to kids,&rdquo; while American Family Association governmental affairs director Sandy Rios <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-us-should-adopt-russia-style-gay-propaganda-law-stop-disney-promoting-lesbianism-k"> said</a> the speech-inhibiting law was just &ldquo;common sense.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>One of Putin&rsquo;s most vocal cheerleaders, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, has called him a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-praises-putin-calls-him-lion-christianity">lion of Christianity</a>&rdquo; and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-its-inexcusable-america-does-not-have-russian-style-anti-gay-laws">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russias-anti-gay-law-exactly-sort-public-policy-weve-been-advocating">demanded</a> that the U.S. enact similar bans on gay &ldquo;propaganda.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Since the U.S. hasn&rsquo;t embrace such an anti-gay crackdown, Religious Right activist William Murray writes, Americans are now <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-thinks-people-are-fleeing-russia-escape-scourge-homosexuality">&ldquo;fleeing&rdquo; to Russia</a> in order to avoid LGBT equality at home.</p>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-GayBob Vander PlaatsBryan FischerC4Don Feder Equality For AllFranklin Graham Howard Center for Family Religion and Society InternationalJosh CraddockLarry JacobsLiberty Counsel Mat Staver Matt Barber Matt DrudgePat Buchanan Personhood USAPeter LaBarbera Rick WilesRussiaSandy Rios Sarah Palin Scott LivelyThe Family LeaderTrunewsWilliam Murray World Congress of Families Americans for Truth about HomosexualityFighting the Right49307Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:58:03 -0500William Murray Religious Right Hero Vladimir Putin's Forces Persecute Christians In Ukrainehttp://www.pfaw.org/content/religious-right-hero-vladimir-putin-s-forces-persecute-christians-ukraine
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<p>The same Religious Right activists who <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/persecution-myth-new-report-takes-rights-deceptive-rallying-cry"> accuse President Obama of persecuting Christians by supporting gay rights</a>, have over the last few years hailed Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a hero and global leader of conservative Christians.</p>
<p>Religious Right leaders such as <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-endorses-vladimir-putins-anti-gay-crackdown">Franklin Graham</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-claims-russians-are-warming-religious-freedom-just-americans-are-rejecting-"> Phyllis Schlafly</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/william-murray-morally-and-spiritually-russia-today-nation-america-was-1950s">William Murray</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-buchanan-once-again-hails-vladimir-putin-regrets-conchita-wurst-victory">Pat Buchanan</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-praises-putin-calls-him-lion-christianity">Bryan Fischer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-2-today-whole-world-looking-russia">Brian Brown</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-spokesman-putin-will-save-america-heady-elixir-sexual-rights">Don Feder</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-putin-will-restore-tsarism-defeat-marxist-united-states-and-global-homosexual-agenda"> Scott Lively</a>, among others, have <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/one-year-after-passage-gay-propaganda-ban-american-right-continues-look-russia-guide"> lionized Putin as a fearless Christian leader </a> who is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown"> bravely cracking down on gay rights</a>.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">The </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-4-world-congress-families-and-russias-christian-saviors" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> World Congress of Families </a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> even decided to hold its annual summit in the Kremlin this year (the group </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-suspends-kremlin-summit-still-supports-russias-anti-gay-crackdown" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> officially cancelled the event </a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> after Russia began its conflict with Ukraine, but its Russian partners are </span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/pro-life-olympics-to-open-next-week-in-moscow-despite-americ#3ir6rsr" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">quietly going ahead with it</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">).</span></p>
<p>Of course, while claims that Obama is persecuting Christians are completely manufactured by conservatives, there is ample evidence that Putin-sponsored forces in eastern Ukraine are violently persecuting evangelical and Ukrainian Orthodox Christians. The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/world/europe/evidence-grows-of-russian-orthodox-clergys-aiding-ukraine-rebels.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region%C2%AEion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"> reports</a>:</p>
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Embracing Orthodox Christianity as a force to unite these now divided Slavic lands and also their own fractured movement, the rebels, fortified recently by an influx of weapons and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/europe/ukraine.html" title="Times article.">soldiers from Russia</a>, used their period in power here purging Slovyansk of rival Christian denominations.<br />
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Among their principal targets were Christians defiant of the Moscow church&rsquo;s claims of religious primacy and suspected of connections with the West.<br />
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&ldquo;Their logic is simple: You are an American church and America is our enemy so we have to kill you,&rdquo; said Mr. Dudnik, the evangelical pastor. No one at his center had been killed, he said but added that the rebels had murdered four evangelical Christians from another Slovyansk church.<br />
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Grabbed by pro-Russian gunmen in June after a Pentecost service at the Divine Transfiguration Church, all four victims were taken away for interrogation and were later found dead in a burned-out car.</blockquote>
<p>We have <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cbn-denounces-putins-suppression-religious-freedom-joins-anti-gay-kremlin-summit">previously noted</a> that evangelicals in Russia, including Baptists and Pentecostals, are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/February/Ex-Soviet-Region-Reneging-on-Religious-Liberties/">facing</a> <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/April/Russian-Evangelicals-Leery-of-Orthodox-Church-/">discrimination</a> as a result of Putin&rsquo;s drive to <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CKTDyRhyNaYJ:www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20140224_Change_course_in_Russia.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us"> push minority denominations underground </a> while growing the clout of the Russian Orthodox Church, which considers evangelical Protestants to be heretics.</p>
<p>While inventing never-ending conspiracy theories about Obama&rsquo;s supposed crackdown on Christianity, Religious Right leaders <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-freedom-and-liberty-group-aclj-backed-russian-gay-propaganda-and-blasphemy-b"> don&rsquo;t appear to mind </a> the real attacks on Christians happening in Russia, under the watch of a leader who they see as an ally in the fight to turn back gay rights and reproductive freedom.</p>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayBrian BrownBryan FischerC4Don Feder Franklin Graham Pat Buchanan Phyllis SchlaflyRussiaScott LivelyVladimir PutinWilliam Murray World Congress of Families Fighting the Right48201Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:35:54 -0500William Murray One Year After Passage Of Gay Propaganda Ban, American Right Continues To Look To Russia As A Guidehttp://www.pfaw.org/content/one-year-after-passage-gay-propaganda-ban-american-right-continues-look-russia-guide
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<p>The Human Rights Campaign <a href="http://www.hrc.org/press-releases/entry/putins-anti-lgbt-law-turns-one">released a report today</a> to mark the first anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s signing of his infamous ban on &ldquo;gay propaganda&rdquo; and related anti-LGBT legislation. HRC reports &ldquo;an uptick in violent attacks on LGBT people&rdquo; since the bills&rsquo; passage that has accompanied a spike in &ldquo;anti-LGBT sentiment&rdquo; in the public square.</p>
<p>Yet despite the dangerous consequences of the increasing use of LGBT people as scapegoats &mdash; both in Russia and in <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/russian-anti-lgbt-crackdown-exporting-homophobic-violence-throughout-region-experts-warn"> neighboring Eastern European and Central Asian countries </a> &mdash; and the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-world-congress-families-anti-gay-activism-aided-ukrainian-anti-eu-propaganda-war"> place of anti-gay politics in Putin&rsquo;s expansionist agenda</a>, many on the American Religious Right continue to celebrate Putin&rsquo;s crackdown on gay rights and even to hail it as a model for the United States.</p>
<p>The issue has been divisive on the Right. For instance, Accuracy in Media&rsquo;s Cliff Kincaid &mdash; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/peter-labarbera-wants-ex-gays-fox-while-cliff-kincaid-wants-gays-out-conservative-movement"> hardly a fan of gay people </a> &mdash; got into a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-criticism-putin-liberal-media-hysteria">memorable shouting match</a> earlier this year with World Congress of Families representatives, who he accused of cozying up to Putin.</p>
<p>It has also put some groups in tough positions. The World Congress of Families was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/two-russian-officials-sanctions-list-closely-involved-upcoming-world-congress-families-summi"> forced to suspend </a> its <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/will-american-religious-right-groups-go-ahead-their-kremlin-summit">planned conference at the Kremlin</a>, which was to be funded by a handful of people close to Putin, after Russia seized Crimea and groups <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/concerned-women-america-drops-out-world-congress-families-moscow-summit"> including Concerned Women for America </a> started backing out.</p>
<p>But we continue to hear right-wing activists heaping praise on Putin for his enthusiastic anti-gay politics and increasing embrace of the Russian Orthodox Church.</p>
<p>Just last week, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-claims-russians-are-warming-religious-freedom-just-americans-are-rejecting-"> Phyllis Schlafly praised </a> Putin for &ldquo;warming up to religious freedom&rdquo; as &ldquo;Americans are rejecting it&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>And earlier this week, WorldNetDaily announced that people around the world are <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-thinks-people-are-fleeing-russia-escape-scourge-homosexuality"> &ldquo;fleeing&rdquo; to Russia to escape homosexuality in their own countries </a> .</p>
<p>American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russias-anti-gay-law-exactly-sort-public-policy-weve-been-advocating">continues</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-russia-not-being-homophobic-it-s-homorealistic">to</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-praises-putin-calls-him-lion-christianity">push</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-activists-should-support-russias-anti-gay-laws-name-diversity">for</a> the U.S. to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-its-inexcusable-america-does-not-have-russian-style-anti-gay-laws">adopt a &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; ban like Russia&rsquo;s</a>:</p>
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<p>Anti-gay activists including <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-buchanan-suggests-god-russias-side">Pat Buchanan</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-michael-sam-must-repent-and-walk-away-deluded-homosexuality">Peter LaBarbera</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-endorses-vladimir-putins-anti-gay-crackdown">Franklin Graham</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scott-lively-blames-gays-ukraine-crisis-lauds-russia-human-rights-leader-world">Scott Lively</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/russia-freer-country-today-we-are-here-america">Keith Davies</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/linda-harvey-blasts-glenn-beck-speaking-out-opposition-russias-anti-gay-crackdown">Linda Harvey</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/randall-terry-defends-anti-gay-laws-russians-have-it-right">Randall Terry</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-it-should-be-illegal-recruit-minors-homosexual-sin">Gordon Klingenschmitt</a>,<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-leaders-defend-russia-s-anti-gay-law">Janice Shaw Crouse</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-leaders-defend-russia-s-anti-gay-law">Austin Ruse</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown"> Bob Vander Plaats </a> , <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown"> Rick Scarborough </a> and, of course, the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-criticism-putin-liberal-media-hysteria">World</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-spokesman-putin-will-save-america-heady-elixir-sexual-rights">Congress</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-4-world-congress-families-and-russias-christian-saviors">of Families</a> have defended Russia&rsquo;s anti-gay crackdown or called for similar laws in the U.S.</p>
<p>And, of course, some have directly lent their support to the passage of anti-gay laws in Russia: the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-4-world-congress-families-and-russias-christian-saviors"> World Congress of Families has an active network </a> in Russia and Eastern Europe and just days before Putin signed the propaganda ban <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-2-today-whole-world-looking-russia"> recruited the National Organization for Marriage&rsquo;s Brian Brown </a> to warn Russian lawmakers about the risks of gay rights.</p>
<p>The support for laws that have dangerously scapegoated LGBT people in Russia is especially ironic coming from a movement that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/persecution-myth-new-report-takes-rights-deceptive-rallying-cry"> claims that the gay rights movement in the United States is persecuting them </a> .</p>
Miranda BlueAccuracy in Media American Family Association Anti-GayAustin RuseBob Vander PlaatsBryan FischerC4Don Feder Equality For AllHoward Center for Family Religion and Society Janice Shaw CrouseLarry JacobsLinda Harvey National Organization for MarriagePat Buchanan Peter LaBarbera Phyllis SchlaflyRandall Terry Rick Scarborough RussiaWilliam Murray World Congress of Families WorldNetDaily Concerned Women for AmericaEagle Forum Fighting the Right47387Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:57:08 -0500William Murray WorldNetDaily Pundit Thinks People Are 'Fleeing' To Russia To Escape Scourge Of Homosexualityhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-thinks-people-are-fleeing-russia-escape-scourge-homosexuality
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<p>William Murray, the Religious Right activist and son of American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O&rsquo;Hair, is joining in the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown">chorus</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-buchanan-once-again-hails-vladimir-putin-regrets-conchita-wurst-victory">of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scott-lively-urges-conservatives-stand-putin-against-new-world-order">sympathy</a> for Vladimir Putin, hailing the Russian leader <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/full-circle-the-russian-embassy-and-my-marxist-mom/">in a WorldNetDaily column today</a> as a bulwark against the increasingly Marxist and secular West.</p>
<p>Murray praises Russia for its &ldquo;flat tax that encourages growth&rdquo; &mdash; which he contrasts with &ldquo;our president&rsquo;s Soviet-style&rdquo; economics &mdash; and policies to ensure that &ldquo;individual achievement is honored and prayer and Bible instruction are welcomed in the classrooms.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He criticizes NATO for &ldquo;antagonizing&rdquo; Russia and the U.S. for supporting gay rights.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Recently, the &lsquo;gay&rsquo; rainbow flag was hoisted at the American Embassy in Israel. At the Olympic Games at Sochi this year, it was Russia who was vilified by Western media for not being gay-friendly. A real turnaround from the 1960s for America,&rdquo; he writes. &ldquo;When my mother filed the lawsuit to remove prayer and Bible reading from America&rsquo;s schools in 1960, the churches were full and the nation was at near full employment. Homosexual relations were considered unnatural by 90 percent of the people.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He also seems convinced that there is a wave of people fleeing the socialist West to the conservative Christian, capitalist Russia: &ldquo;Westerners are seeking Russian citizenship, but not to support Marxism. This time Westerners are fleeing the godless collectivism sought by my mother, the system that is fast becoming the new American norm.&rdquo;</p>
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On June 17 of this year, the anniversary of that disastrous Supreme Court decision banning school prayer, I was part of a conference titled Advancing a Constructive Agenda for U.S.&ndash;Russia Relations. The title of the conference reveals that it was organized by academics, chief among them being Dr. Edward Lozansky, president of the American University in Moscow. The events over two days were held at several venues in Washington including room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building ,which is a meeting/banquet hall of the top floor of the building with a view of the Capitol Dome.<br />
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A shut down of trade with Russia would cost many thousands of jobs in the United States as well as the loss of billions of dollars in American private investment in Russia. The planned NATO expansion into Ukraine after the overthrow of the elected government there in April was foolhardy at best, led to loss of life and did nothing to encourage continued integration of Russia into the West. Twenty years ago Vladimir Putin wanted to reform Russia and bring the nation into NATO. After 20 years of being treated as an enemy by the United States and NATO, he has become an enemy. Most of the experts at the conference from the left and the right acknowledge that the antagonism of Russia today is a direct result of NATO expansion to Russia&rsquo;s borders, for what purpose, other than assuring jobs in the defense industry, is unknown.<br />
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The entire experience of the conference events took me back to the times of being raised in a Marxist home where the vodka did flow and America, free enterprise and God were despised. Having been a part of the decline in religion and morality that has come to America, I now look at Russia where individual achievement is honored and prayer and Bible instruction are welcomed in the classrooms. Recently, the &ldquo;gay&rdquo; rainbow flag was hoisted at the American Embassy in Israel. At the Olympic Games at Sochi this year, it was Russia who was vilified by Western media for not being gay-friendly. A real turnaround from the 1960s for America. Meanwhile Russia has a flat tax that encourages growth, while businesses in the U.S. struggle under a tax code that has many of our wealthy denouncing their citizenship and simply living on their yachts.<br />
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Some things do not change, however. NATO is still knocking on the front door of Russia as if it were still the Soviet Union, with Leonid Brezhnev and the old Politburo in power there. Despite pleas from Germany and France, the United States continues to alienate a resource-rich nation that just a few years ago wanted to be our ally, while refusing to recognize that our real enemies lie in the Middle East. The source of most of the evil in the world is financed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to whose despotic king our democratically elected president has publicly bowed. Meanwhile Russia, whose security agencies warned us about a coming jihad against us, is deemed our enemy. And worse than that, we supply arms to the jihadists in Syria who behead Christians, rape Christian women and enslave children. Incredibly, it is Vladimir Putin who stands nearly alone as a world leader in defending the Christians of the Middle East.<br />
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When my mother filed the lawsuit to remove prayer and Bible reading from America&rsquo;s schools in 1960, the churches were full and the nation was at near full employment. Homosexual relations were considered unnatural by 90 percent of the people, and the new nation of Israel was praised as a shining light to the world, a final equality for the Jewish people. Today Israel is despised in the liberal churches that champion homosexuality, and one of every two people checking out at the supermarkets are using food stamps. Our president calls for Soviet-style equal outcome rather than equal opportunity. One thing that has changed: Westerners are seeking Russian citizenship, but not to support Marxism. This time Westerners are fleeing the godless collectivism sought by my mother, the system that is fast becoming the new American norm.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Government is Not God RussiaWilliam Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right47315Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:50:07 -0500William Murray William Murray: 'Morally And Spiritually, Russia Today Is The Nation America Was In The 1950s'http://www.pfaw.org/content/william-murray-morally-and-spiritually-russia-today-nation-america-was-1950s
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<p>William Murray, head of the Religious Freedom Coalition and Government Is Not God PAC, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/author/wmurray/">writes in WorldNetDaily today</a> that President Obama and the media have a &ldquo;hatred for Russia&rdquo; because &ldquo;morally and spiritually, Russia today is the nation America was in the 1950s.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He cites Russia&rsquo;s harsh anti-abortion laws, ban on gays in the military, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in government, and <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/flat-taxes-are-big-in-the-former-ussr.-have-they-worked">flat tax</a>.</p>
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<p>Why do President Obama and the Western media have such hatred for Russia? What is all the Russia bashing really about?</p>
<p>In Russia the clergy are allowed to enter the schools to give instruction in the Bible. Prayer is allowed in the public schools in Russia, as well. It is against the law to sell or give pornographic literature to anyone under the age of 18. Marriage in Russia is allowed only between one man and one woman.</p>
<p>Last year President Putin signed a law outlawing advertisements for abortion. In 2011 Russia passed a law requiring health warnings to women before getting an abortion, and now the Duma is considering outlawing abortions completely unless the mother is in immediate danger of death. (In the old Soviet Union, abortion was the primary means of birth control).</p>
<p>There is no complicated tax code in Russia; they have the kind of flat tax the Republicans have pushed in the U.S. for years. In Russia everyone pays the 13 percent income tax regardless of how much they earn. The year after this flat tax was instituted in 2001, the Russian economy took off like a rocket and tax revenues increased as well. Russia is not a communist country any longer. Russia has as many or maybe even more millionaires than the United States. There is free enterprise; anyone can start a business, and many people do.</p>
<p>In the Russian Army the chaplains are allowed to preach the Gospel and pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Homosexual behavior is not allowed in the Russian military and punishable by court martial. (The U.S. military just held its first officially approved drag queen contest at the Kadena Air Base.)</p>
<p>Why do Barack Obama and the liberal media hate Russia so much but have such love for nations that are anti-Christian and repressive such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia? Morally and spiritually, Russia today is the nation America was in the 1950s.</p>
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Miranda BlueC4Government is Not God Religious Freedom CoalitionRussiaWilliam Murray WorldNetDaily Religious Liberty46100Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:09:11 -0500William Murray Government Is Not God PAC: Transgender People Are 'Mentally Ill And Need Treatment'http://www.pfaw.org/content/government-not-god-pac-transgender-people-are-mentally-ill-and-need-treatment
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<p>William Murray&rsquo;s Government Is Not God PAC is deeply troubled by US-sponsored efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in Central America. As the HIV/AIDS Alliance <a href="http://www.aidsalliance.org/Pagedetails.aspx?id=244">notes</a>, the prevalence of HIV is especially high &ldquo;among sex workers, transgender people, and men who have sex with men.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But Murray&rsquo;s organization, citing a WorldNetDaily <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/u-s-slams-other-countries-for-conservative-gender-norms/">article</a>, is upset that the Obama administration wants to &ldquo;attack heterosexual norms&rdquo; and &ldquo;encourage sexuality and gender-equal workplace policies.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;These are individuals who are mentally ill and need treatment,&rdquo; the Religious Right group writes today in a <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/obamas-u-s-agency-for-international-development-targets-heterosexual-norms-overseas/">blog post</a>. &ldquo;In short, your tax dollars will be used to hand out condoms to homosexuals, normalize cross-dressing and transsexuality, remove the 'stigma' from men and women who prostitute themselves or are drug addicts, and will be used to fight against 'heterosexual norms' in Central America.&rdquo;</p>
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Your hard-earned tax dollars are hard at work in the Obama Administration. They&rsquo;re now being used by the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID) to attack heterosexual norms in other nations around the globe.<br />
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The primary target at this point is Central America, where USAID is pushing the Central America Project for a Sustainable Response to HIV (PASCA II).<br />
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The goal of the program is to fight &ldquo;stigma&rdquo; associated with homosexuals, intravenous drug users, prisoners, prostitutes (called &ldquo;sex workers&rdquo; by USAID), transsexuals, and other sexual deviates.<br />
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USAID will encourage sexuality and gender-equal workplace policies &ndash; including promoting the notion that people who have a gender identity disorder &ndash; will be protected in the workplace. These are individuals who are mentally ill and need treatment. They think they&rsquo;re actually the opposite sex and they believe that they should be treated as if they were normal. This includes men wearing dresses to work and using women&rsquo;s restrooms and shower facilities or women wishing to use men&rsquo;s restrooms.<br />
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In short, your tax dollars will be used to hand out condoms to homosexuals, normalize cross-dressing and transsexuality, remove the &ldquo;stigma&rdquo; from men and women who prostitute themselves or are drug addicts, and will be used to fight against &ldquo;heterosexual norms&rdquo; in Central America.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Government is Not God William Murray Fighting the Right45289Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:35:49 -0500William Murray Government Is Not God PAC: Obama Should've Been 'Removed From Office' For His 'Socialist, Islamist, And Pro-Homosexual Agendas'http://www.pfaw.org/content/government-not-god-pac-obama-shouldve-been-removed-office-his-socialist-islamist-and-pro-hom
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<p>William Murray&rsquo;s Government Is Not God PAC is predictably <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/obama-exceeds-constitutional-authority-on-gay-marriage">upset </a>that the Treasury Department and the IRS, in accordance with the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision that struck down the federal component of DOMA, will <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/same-sex-couples-get-a-just-decision-from-the-irs/2013/09/03/2235aa60-14cc-11e3-880b-7503237cc69d_story.html">recognize </a>legally married same-sex couples.</p>
<p>The conservative group said the decision was just more proof that Obama is a &ldquo;tyrant,&rdquo; lamenting that &ldquo;in more rational times, he would already have been impeached and removed from office&rdquo; for pursuing &ldquo;his socialist, Islamist, and pro-homosexual agendas.&rdquo;</p>
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It should come as no surprise that Obama has just exceeded his authority to redefine marriage under federal law.<br />
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The U.S. Department of Treasury and the IRS, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services are going to recognize homosexual marriages even in states that define marriage as a one-man, one-woman union.<br />
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According to Ryan Anderson, with The Heritage Foundation:<br />
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<em>The agencies announced that they will recognize same-sex couples as married provided that they were married in states that have redefined marriage, even if they now reside in states that retain the historical definition of marriage. As Treasury and IRS put it, &ldquo;The ruling applies regardless of whether the couple lives in a jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex marriage or a jurisdiction that does not recognize same-sex marriage.&rdquo;</em><br />
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Anderson continues:<br />
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<em>Given the Supreme Court&rsquo;s ruling on Section 3 of DOMA, the federal government should look to each state&rsquo;s definition of marriage as governing for federal law. This respects both federalism and democratic self-government. A bad Supreme Court ruling should not allow federal bureaucrats to redefine marriage across America for their agency.</em><br />
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But, of course, since Obama views the Constitution as an impediment to his socialist, Islamist, and pro-homosexual agendas, he will impose his policies on Americans without regard for the legality of whatever he wishes to do. A leader who operates this way is called a tyrant. In more rational times, he would already have been impeached and removed from office. But, don&rsquo;t expect that to happen &ndash; especially since the Senate is still under the control of the Obama clone Harry Reid.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Government is Not God William Murray Fighting the Right44186Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:05:48 -0500William Murray Murray: Gays are 'The Most Violent of the Abusers of Children in Our Society'http://www.pfaw.org/content/murray-gays-are-most-violent-abusers-children-our-society
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<p>Like other conservative writers, William Murray sees the 1950s as a utopian age, only to be ruined by struggles for civil rights later on. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality">writes</a> today in <em>WorldNetDaily</em> that America is now suffering the consequences of conservatives having &ldquo;lost&rsquo; the culture war &ldquo;in the 1960s in the midst of bean bag chairs, lava lamps, cheap wine and marijuana smoke&rdquo; to the left and the gays.</p>
<p>Murray laments that while gays are &ldquo;the most violent of the abusers of children in our society,&rdquo; they &ldquo;are treated as a protected class&rdquo; and helped usher in America&rsquo;s &ldquo;moral decline.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He also blamed Social Security and Medicare for society&rsquo;s ills&mdash;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality">again</a>&mdash;and declared that Obamacare is &ldquo;the final blow&rdquo; to the American family.</p>
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Loving Christian couples often cannot adopt children in the current culture because they are declared bigots for not accepting anal sex as normal. Homosexuals, the most violent of the abusers of children in our society, are treated as a protected class. State welfare offices pay women not to marry the fathers of their children, and the elderly receive funds to disengage from their children and grandchildren and move to warmer climates.<br />
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Courts have ruled that a girl 13 or younger can buy an abortion drug &ndash; the &ldquo;morning after&rdquo; pill &ndash; over the counter, and use this powerful drug without permission of parents or a doctor.<br />
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During the 1960s, the drug and &ldquo;gay&rdquo; counter-culture of San Francisco flourished, and nude bathing at a park in Austin, Texas, began. New York City in the 1960s was far worse than portrayed in the movie &ldquo;The Cross and the Switchblade&rdquo;; the city was a hell hole on the edge of bankruptcy. Anti-war protests encouraged by money from the Soviet KGB filled the streets of cities with angry youth, and a communist by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.<br />
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The first major blow to the family was Social Security, the second Medicare and the third welfare. These programs drove Grandma and Grandpa out of the home and to Florida. Free from the responsibility of caring for aging parents, the &ldquo;me generation&rdquo; was able to concentrate on pleasure and material success. Religion was seen as simply an impediment to pre-marital sex, divorce, alcohol, drug use, gambling and materialism. The final blow is Obamacare, which takes away even the responsibility of caring for children from families. The safety net is so broad that the family is simply no longer necessary.<br />
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Yes, I am very politically incorrect to those on both sides of the fence. The left will say I am gay bashing and against the &ldquo;progress&rdquo; of individual freedom from moral restraints and economic worries. The social conservative right will say I have abandoned prayer for our schools. Neither view is true. I am simply being honest about the date the cultural war was lost. The drift to defeat did not begin with the removal of prayer from the schools. The cultural war was lost in the 1960s in the midst of bean bag chairs, lava lamps, cheap wine and marijuana smoke. That loss has led America to its current financial, political and moral decline.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4William Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right43382Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:05:46 -0500William Murray Right Wing Leftovers - 5/9/13http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-5913
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The Minnesota State House today <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/09/1987021/breaking-minnesota-house-passes-marriage-equality/">approved</a> marriage equality legislation.&nbsp;</li>
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But according to <a href="http://www.nomblog.com/35064">Brian Brown</a>, Minnesota&rsquo;s marriage equality bill will cause &ldquo;incredible social damage&rdquo; and also &ldquo;hurts the economy.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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Richard Land <a href="http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=40265">warns</a> that if the immigration reform bill includes protections for same-sex couples then &ldquo;most, if not all of us, would have to oppose it.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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The Family Research Council is <a href="http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer-targets-national-day-of-prayer-report-call2fall-faith-and-the-military-boy-scouts">asking</a> people to pray for churches that &ldquo;have abandoned the Bible&rdquo; and &ldquo;religious adversaries&rdquo; like Mikey Weinstein, warning that &ldquo;the worst can be averted only by national repentance and God-sent Awakening.&rdquo;</li>
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William Murray <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/the-day-the-christian-right-died/">says</a> what we have known for a very long time: &ldquo;By backing Mark Sanford, or by saying nothing to stop his re-ascendancy, the social conservative leaders of the Christian right have declared that they are Republicans first and moral leaders maybe second, third or fourth.&rdquo;</li>
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Brian TashmanBrian BrownLeftoversMark SanfordRichard Land William Murray 43015Thu, 09 May 2013 16:20:13 -0500William Murray Murray: Obama a 'Modern-Day Manasseh' Who 'Seems To Love the Death of Others'http://www.pfaw.org/content/murray-obama-modern-day-manasseh-who-seems-love-death-others
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<p>Furious over President Obama&rsquo;s speech to Planned Parenthood, William Murray took to <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/obama-king-manasseh-in-our-midst/"><em>WorldNetDaily</em></a> today to compare Obama to <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=234419033">the idolatrous and evil king Manasseh</a> for having &ldquo;crossed God&rsquo;s red line by petitioning Him to bless abortionists.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;No president has stood for death and the destruction of the true church of Christ as has Barack Obama,&rdquo; Murray writes. He goes on to imply that Obama is a Muslim, arguing that only in Islam do people ask God &ldquo;to assist in murder.&rdquo;</p>
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No president has stood for death and the destruction of the true church of Christ as has Barack Obama. He is a modern-day Manasseh. Barack Obama has supported the takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood of several nations, and the result has been the brutal treatment and murder of Christians. In Syria his administration has supported Islamist fighters who have bombed schools and slaughtered women and children. It is no surprise then that he would take to the stage and ask God to bless abortionists who kill the most helpless and innocent among us &ndash; as he did at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser last week.<br />
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President Barack Hussein Obama seems to love the death of others, and he seems to believe that God should bless those who murder the innocent. Not since Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, has a national leader asked for blessings through the sacrifice of babies. Manasseh sacrificed his own son to the Canaanite god Moloch, who was worshiped with the burning of children. Barack Obama has crossed God&rsquo;s red line by petitioning Him to bless abortionists. Barack Obama now rivals Manasseh.<br />
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The focus of the Religious Freedom Coalition, of which I am chairman, is the persecuted church. A national leader asking God to bless abortionists is more than an attack on the church; it is an attack on God Himself. In his closing remarks at the Planned Parenthood convention, Barack Hussein Obama petitioned God to bless baby killers.<br />
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There is only one modern religion in which God is openly petitioned to assist in murder, and that can be heard in the cry of &ldquo;Allahu Akbar&rdquo; by Muslims as they slaughter Christians in Nigerian villages or set off bombs at the Boston Marathon. Perhaps if Obama had paid more attention at church as an adult, and less attention at mosque as a child, he would not ask God to bless those who kill the innocent.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Government is Not God planned parenthoodReligious Freedom CoalitionWilliam Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right42908Wed, 01 May 2013 09:50:37 -0500William Murray Michele Bachmann to Headline Conference with 9/11 & Sandy Hook Truther, Birthers and Anti-Gay Activistshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/michele-bachmann-headline-conference-911-sandy-hook-truther-birthers-and-anti-gay-activists
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<p>Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be joining some of the most extreme right-wing activists in the country at the upcoming <a href="http://www.theawakeningusa.com/">Awakening 2013</a> conference, which is organized by the Liberty University-affiliated Liberty Counsel. Along with Bachmann, Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are scheduled to take part in the Religious Right gathering.</p>
<p>Just how radical are the conference&rsquo;s leaders?</p>
<p>The fact that it is hosted by Liberty Counsel, the anti-gay group led by Mat Staver and Matt Barber that has been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case">implicated in the Lisa Miller kidnapping case</a>, is the first clue to the Awakening&rsquo;s far-right bent. On top of that, the event includes 9/11 and Sandy Hook truther Bradlee Dean, self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs and convicted domestic abuser and anti-women&rsquo;s rights activist Timothy Johnson.</p>
<p><em>Anti-Gay</em></p>
<p><strong>Mat</strong> <strong>Staver</strong></p>
<p>The host of the Awakening conference, Staver has a long anti-gay record. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-solution-our-economic-crisis">blamed</a> the 2008 financial crisis on banks that &ldquo;actively promoted the homosexual agenda&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=797">said</a> lawmakers who support marriage equality &ldquo;are not competent for public office.&rdquo; Staver has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-church-must-rise-if-supreme-court-backs-marriage-equality">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/04/audio-as-our-rights-become-marrier-our-opposition-becomes-scarier.html">called</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-liberty-counsel-issues-call-revolution-nonviolently-course">for</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/if-it-not-hyperbole-what-it">a</a> &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-supreme-court-could-spark-second-revolution-and-civil-war-over-marriage-equality">revolution</a>&rdquo; to protest gay equality and warned that gay rights laws will&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cpac-marriage-equality-will-create-generation-violent-criminals">increase violent crime</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mat-staver-enda-result-death-individuals">kill people</a> and eventually&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-legalizing-gay-marriage-will-be-beginning-end-america">destroy America</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-gay-rights-will-destroy-western-civilization">western civilization</a>. He&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-under-obama-us-one-worlds-immoral-leaders">defended</a> a Malawi law criminalizing homosexuality and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mat-staver-accuses-obama-backing-forced-abortion-funding-and-forced-homosexuality">argued</a> that Obama supports &ldquo;forced homosexuality.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Matt Barber</strong></p>
<p>The deputy leader of Liberty Counsel, Barber has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-suicide-rate-high-among-gay-youth-because-they-know-what-they-are-doing-unnatural-wro">argued</a> that suicide rates are higher among LGBT youth because they &ldquo;look inward and know that what they are doing is unnatural, is wrong [and] is immoral.&rdquo; He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-tolerance-homosexuality-cancer-brings-down-societies">described</a> homosexuality as a &ldquo;cancer&rdquo; that prompted Noah&rsquo;s flood and will ultimately <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gay-rights-will-bring-about-communist-satanic-domination"> lead to Communism </a> . Barber has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gay-rights-will-bring-about-communist-satanic-domination">said</a> that Satan is behind gay rights efforts, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/satan-behind-campaign-let-gays-join-boy-scouts">asserting</a> that demonic &ldquo;spiritual pressure&rdquo; is driving the campaign to end the Boy Scouts of America&rsquo;s ban on gay members. He has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-says-there-no-evidence-anti-lgbt-violence-discrimination">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-and-janet-mefferd-dismiss-violence-against-lgbt-community-nonsense">denied</a> that LGBT persons face violence or discrimination, while&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-harvey-agree-glsen-tacitly-advocated-adult-child-sex">frequently</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-and-reisman-suggest-all-gay-people-are-pedophiles-or-advocate-pedophilia">arguing</a> that the gay community is bent on molesting children. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-praises-pastor-behind-ugandas-kill-gays-bill">praised</a> the chief supporter of Uganda&rsquo;s &lsquo;Kill the Gays&rsquo; bill.</p>
<p><strong>Shawn Akers</strong></p>
<p>Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Shawn Akers has joined Staver and Barber in opposing gay rights efforts, even when it comes to measures to prevent the bullying of LGBT youth, which he <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/big-bullies-how-the-religious-right-trying-to-make-schools-safe-for-bullies-and-dangero#playing">called</a> &ldquo;a form of indoctrination and reeducation that smacks of socialist and Communist countries.&rdquo; Akers instead accused gay rights advocates of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-gay-rights-advocates-are-real-bullies">bullying</a> Christians, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/akers-gay-activism-religion-regnerus-study-treated-heresy">turning</a> &ldquo;homosexual activism&rdquo; into a religion and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-dan-savage-encouraging-violence-against-christians-nazis-did-jews">persecuting</a> Christians in the same way as Adolf Hitler persecuted Jews.</p>
<p><strong>Rena Lindevaldsen</strong></p>
<p>Lindevaldsen, a Liberty Counsel attorney and Liberty University law professor, has been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case">closely implicated</a> in the kidnapping of Isabella Miller, whose mother <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/lisa-miller">Lisa Miller</a> fled with her to Central America in order to stop her former same-sex partner from having custody. Lindevaldsen has declared that Satan is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-university-law-prof-gay-rights-satan-obviously-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-us-look-truth-scripture"> behind gay rights efforts </a> and &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-satan-plants-seed-homosexuality">plant[s] the seed</a>&rdquo; of homosexuality in people.</p>
<p><strong>Bradlee Dean</strong></p>
<p>Dean, a Minnesota-based Religious Right activist and&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.pfaw.org/content/from-fringe-figure-movement-leader-michele-bachmanns-far-right-roots">close Bachmann ally</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/27/280640/bradlee-dean-never-calls-for-the-persecution-of-gays-except-all-the-time/">extolled</a> Muslims who are &ldquo;calling for the executions of homosexuals in America&rdquo; as &ldquo;more moral&rdquo; than American Christians and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-mentors-and-praises-radio-hosts-who-claim-gays-are-committing-extended-suicide">applauded</a> African nations that imprison homosexuals. He has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/27/280640/bradlee-dean-never-calls-for-the-persecution-of-gays-except-all-the-time/">called</a> homosexuality &ldquo;a mental illness&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann%E2%80%99s-favorite-ministry-joins-fischer-link-gays-holocaust">blamed</a> gays for the Holocaust. Dean also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/close-bachmann-ally-bradlee-dean-suggests-sandy-hook-was-government-plot">believes</a> that the government staged the Sandy Hook and Aurora mass murders to push gun control policies and that it was also behind the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing.</p>
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<p><strong>William Murray</strong></p>
<p>Government Is Not God PAC (GING-PAC) head William Murray has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-obama-jihad-against-jews-christians">warned</a> that President Obama, whom he calls a &ldquo;dangerous racist,&rdquo; has &ldquo;stopped waging a war on Islam terrorism&rdquo; in order to pursue a &ldquo;jihad against non-Islamic groups&mdash;both Jews and Christians.&rdquo; He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality">claimed</a> that the establishment of Social Security led to a decline in morality that meant &ldquo;more young men destroy their lives in homosexuality.&rdquo; He has blamed gay people for everything from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/william-murray-blames-gay-diplomats-turmoil-middle-east">turmoil in the Middle East</a> to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">train crashes</a>. Murray&rsquo;s GING-PAC has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/government-not-god-pac-if-homosexuals-win-bill-rights-dies">charged</a> gay rights activists with plotting to destroy the Bill of Rights and recently <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/government-not-god-pac-warns-rob-portman-his-son-may-now-die-aids-should-go-ex-gay-therapy">urged</a> Sen. Rob Portman to send his openly gay son to ex-gay therapy so he won&rsquo;t die of AIDS.</p>
<p><strong>Greg Quinlan </strong></p>
<p>At the Awakening 2012, Quinlan <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/homosexual-tornado-destroy-america-awakening-2012">endorsed Lou Engle&rsquo;s call</a> to create a prayer movement to confront the &ldquo;homosexual and abortion tornadoes&rdquo; that are &ldquo;coming to destroy America.&rdquo; More recently, he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2851871397.html">linked homosexuality to pedophilia</a> and called same-sex marriage &ldquo;<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8012170779.html">a ban on heterosexual rights</a>.&rdquo; He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-head-accuses-gays-and-lesbians-sexual-cannibalism">argued</a> that gays and lesbians are experiencing &ldquo;sexual cannibalism&rdquo; and promote suicide among LGBT youth in order to succeed in &ldquo;making martyrs out of the kids that we&rsquo;re recruiting to behave as homosexuals.&rdquo; Quinlan&rsquo;s organization, Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-distributing-misinformation-maryland-students">pushes</a> harmful ex-gay therapy for children.</p>
<p><strong>Rick Scarborough </strong></p>
<p>Last year at the Awakening, Scarborough&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-bart-simpson-rachel-maddow-brokeback-mountain">blamed</a> Rachel Maddow and&nbsp;<em>Brokeback Mountain</em> for America&rsquo;s ills. These were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/when-obama-declares-lbgt-shame-month-right-will-support-it">far</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.visionamerica.us/article/give-me-a-break-this-is-unity/">from</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/blood-martyrs-predicted-following-hate-crimes-protections">his</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/latino-democratic-councilman-partners-anti-latino-pastor-rick-scarborough">only</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/whos-who-values-voter-summit-2012">anti-gay</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-calling-sodomites-gay-abuse-language">statements</a>. He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-god-allowed-benghazi-attack-because-america-mired-sin">blamed</a> gay marriage and abortion rights for the Benghazi attack, and at Awakening 2011 described AIDS as <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-aids-gods-judgment-immoral-act">divine punishment</a> for homosexuality. Scarborough also invited controversy when he claimed that the growth of the Latino population <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-if-country-becomes-30-percent-hispanic-we-will-no-longer-be-america">threatens America</a> and that non-white Americans will <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-worries-more-non-white-families-will-mean-less-christians-america">endanger</a> the country&rsquo;s Christian heritage.</p>
<p><strong>Judith Reisman</strong></p>
<p>Reisman, a visiting Liberty University professor who is fighting to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-u-professor-judith-reisman-wants-pornography-outlawed">criminalize pornography</a>, has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-homosexual-activists-doing-to-christians-what-nazis-used-used-to-do-to-jews">claimed</a> that schools are brainwashing children into becoming gay and that gay rights advocates are emulated the Nazis. She also said that the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network&rsquo;s Gay-Straight Alliances are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ten-most-absurd-stories-santorum-worldnetdaily">modeled after the Hitler Youth</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/reisman-sex-ed-children-prostitutes-">promote pedophilia</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Harry Jackson</strong></p>
<p>Jackson has played a leading role in campaigns against marriage equality in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, fights he described as a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-brings-down-queen-heaven-behind-same-sex-marriage-perversion"> spiritual battle against Satanic forces</a>. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-brings-down-queen-heaven-behind-same-sex-marriage-perversion">said</a> that a demon called the Queen of Heaven is behind the push for same-sex marriage, which he warned &ldquo;corrupts, perverts and pollutes&rdquo; society. Jackson has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gay-marriage-part-satanic-plot-destroy-family">called</a> marriage equality &ldquo;a Satanic plot to destroy our seed&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-recruit-children-christians-steal-back-rainbow">warned</a> that gay rights advocates &ldquo;want to recruit your kids&rdquo; and are <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-radical-gay-activists-america-times-hitler">targeting</a> young people &ldquo;just like during the times of Hitler.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><em>Anti-Women&rsquo;s Rights</em></p>
<p><strong>Timothy Johnson</strong></p>
<p>As head of the Fredrick Douglass Foundation, Johnson has worked on GOP and social conservative outreach to the African American community. For example, he worked with Religious Right groups to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/top-vawa-opponents-partnered-convicted-wife-beater-and-group-tied-mail-order-bride-firm">oppose</a> the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He was an interesting choice for the job, since he himself is a <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/147010/is_the_gop%27s_point_man_for_recruiting_black_candidates_hiding_a_fake_ph.d._and_a_violent_past"> convicted domestic abuser</a>, and was arrested a second time for spousal abuse two years after his felony conviction.</p>
<p><strong>Janet Porter</strong></p>
<p>Porter is the architect behind anti-choice &ldquo;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/gop-takes-its-war-women-states#heartbeat">heartbeat laws</a>,&rdquo; which effectively criminalize abortion. Such laws recently passed in North Dakota and Arkansas and have been considered in numerous other states. She has called on conservative Christians to gain control of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-porter-prays-control-government">government</a> and the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-porter-prays-control-over-media">media</a>, warning that under President Obama, conservatives and Christians <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ten-most-absurd-stories-santorum-worldnetdaily">may be put in concentration camps or starved to death</a>. Porter <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-asks-god-prevent-obama-taking-office">prayed</a> after the 2008 election that God would prevent Obama, whom she <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/definitive-proof-communist-conspiracy">thinks</a> might be a Communist spy from Russia, from taking office, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/vote-obama-go-hell">insisted</a> that God will send Obama supporters to Hell.</p>
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<p><strong>Doug Giles</strong></p>
<p>Giles has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/04/25/conservative-columnist-and-radio-host-giles-slu/135496">smeared</a> feminists as &ldquo;misogynists with vaginas&rdquo; who urge women to have &ldquo;their vagina turned into a sexual turnstile&rdquo; and become &ldquo;the village bicycle.&rdquo; &ldquo;Have you ever seen a feminist around a womanly woman and not one of her butch buddies who's sporting a Tim Allen haircut?,&rdquo; Giles wrote. &ldquo;Question: If feminists and lesbians hate men like they do, why do they try to look like us?&rdquo; Giles has used similarly harsh language to describe <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/09/21/father-of-filmmaker-behind-acorn-videos-has-bac/154827">progressives</a>, &ldquo;<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2009/01/25/obama%E2%80%99s_evangelicals_the_liberals%E2%80%99_new_useful_idiots/page/full/">the radical homosexual agenda</a>&rdquo; and <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2009/08/08/my_fishy_letter_of_encouragement_for_the_town_hall_rebels?page=full&comments=true"> President Obama</a>, who is the subject of Giles&rsquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/09/acorn_smasher_hannah_giles_dad.php">weird music videos</a>.</p>
<p><em>Anti-Muslim Activists</em></p>
<p><strong>Pamela</strong> <strong>Geller</strong></p>
<p>A <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/07/14/memo-to-media-pamela-geller-does-not-belong-on/167700">conspiracy theorist blogger</a>, Geller has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/pam-geller-obama-muslim-mosque">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/geller-obama-muhammad-may-be-your-prophet-hes-not-mine">suggested</a> that President Obama is a Muslim &mdash; <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller">describing</a> him as a &ldquo;muhammadan&rdquo; who &ldquo;wants jihad to win&rdquo; and supports a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/geller-how-long-do-jews-have-obamas-america">genocide against Jews</a> &mdash; and the &ldquo;<a href="http://gawker.com/5071373/bombshell-obama-malcom-x-love-child">love child</a>&rdquo; of Malcolm X, &ldquo;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/25/fox-news-has-mainstreamed-pam-gellers-islamopho/183150">a bastard</a>, literally and figuratively.&rdquo; She even <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/">attempted to justify</a> far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik&rsquo;s attack on a left-wing youth camp, going so far as to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-muslim-bloggers-smear-victims-norway-attack">blame the victims</a>. Geller has also called for the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:048y7CxczXIJ:atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/erev-yom-muslim-riot-attack-jews-in-jerusalem-policemen-wounded-in-temple-mt-riots.html+http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/"> destruction </a> of the Dome of the Rock and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/08/11/geller-compares-nyc-mosque-to-building-kkk-shri/169076">likened</a> an Islamic community center to a Ku Klux Klan &ldquo;shrine.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin</strong></p>
<p>A former general now serving as vice president of the Family Research Council, Boykin believes the U.S. is engaging in a&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/opinion/oe-arkin16">holy war against Islam</a> and was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/world/bush-says-he-disagrees-with-general-s-remarks-on-religion.html">reprimanded</a> by former President George W. Bush for his anti-Muslim speeches. Boykin has called Islam an &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-islam-evil">evil</a>&rdquo; faith that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-islam-should-not-be-protected-under-first-amendment">should not be protected under the First Amendment</a>.&rdquo; At one point, he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-tries-backtrack-his-no-mosques-america-comment">advocated</a> the banning of mosques. He has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/company-rick-perry-keeps-jerry-boykin-and-obamas-brownshirt-army">charged</a> President Obama with creating a Brownshirts-style paramilitary and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-obama-support-infiltration-muslim-brotherhood-government">aiding</a> a Muslim Brotherhood &ldquo;infiltration&rdquo; of the U.S. government.</p>
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<p><strong>Frank Gaffney</strong></p>
<p>Gaffney is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-goes-birther">birther</a> who <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-tries-defend-his-obamas-secret-muslim-claims">believes</a> that President Obama is a &ldquo;secret Muslim&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-obama-administration-pursuing-sharia-blasphemy-agenda-our-enemies">accuses</a> the president of supporting Sharia law and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-obama-profound-affinity-islamism">pushing</a> &ldquo;efforts to promote Islamism.&rdquo; He has even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-hagel-just-like-iranian-agent">said</a> that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel behaves like &ldquo;an Iranian agent&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-troubled-obama-cia-pick-speaks-arabic">urged</a> senators to oppose the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA because Brennan knows how to speak Arabic. Gaffney also helped <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-smear-huma-abedin-fringe-conspiracy-halls-congress">engineer</a> Bachmann&rsquo;s witch hunt targeting Muslim officials in government. His views are so extreme that he has&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/15/144098/frank-gaffney-banned-from-cpac/">been</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/17/frank_gaffney_banned_from_another_conservative_d_c_meeting.html">banned</a> from two leading conservative gatherings.</p>
<p><em>Apostles and Prophets</em></p>
<p><strong>Rick Joyner</strong></p>
<p>Joyner, who considers himself a prophet, has warned that the gay rights movement is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-satan-using-gays-and-other-useful-idiots-destroy-america">Satanic push</a> to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-gay-rights-forbid-marriage-male-female">ban heterosexual marriage</a>. Joyner <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-hurricane-katrina-was-gods-judgment-homosexuality">claimed</a> that Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for homosexuality and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-our-president-barack-obama-wicked-man">agreed</a> with a fellow prophet, Bob Jones, that Hurricane Sandy was judgment for same-sex marriage. He also believes that California will soon face a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-joyner-west-coast-doomed">divine</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-america-under-judgment-and-god-going-destroy-california">reckoning</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Cindy Jacobs</strong></p>
<p>Another self-proclaimed prophet, Jacobs <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-satan-seeks-destroy-gods-model-family-and-install-tyranny">told Awakening 2012 attendees</a> last year that Satan is behind the push for same-sex marriage. Jacobs has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal">asserted</a> that the repeal of Don&rsquo;t Ask Don&rsquo;t Tell led to freak bird deaths and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-obama-anti-biblical-floods-fires">blamed</a> Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;anti-biblical&rdquo; decisions for natural disasters. She <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals">lauded</a> another Religious Right gathering, Rick Perry&rsquo;s The Response, for breaking the curse of cannibal Native Americans over Texas, and has taken credit for thwarting several <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-our-prayers-stop-terrorism">terrorist</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-claims-have-thwarted-numerous-terrorist-attacks">attacks</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-cindy-jacobs-prevented-two-african-coups">coups</a>.</p>
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<p>William Murray&rsquo;s far-right Government Is Not God PAC has some harsh words for Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who today revealed that his son is gay, and he now supports marriage equality.</p>
<p>The Religious Right organization in a <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/republican-senator-rob-portman-now-supports-gay-marriage">blog post</a> today warned Portman that homosexuality is &ldquo;a sexually destructive behavior,&rdquo; and is &ldquo;accepting a behavior that may eventually kill his son from AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, or oral cancer.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Homosexual sex is ultimately just as destructive as cocaine use,&rdquo; GING-PAC said in the post. &ldquo;Would Portman suddenly call for the legalization of cocaine if his son had announced that he was a cocaine addict?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Portman put his son into ex-gay conversion therapy, saying that &ldquo;a person with a same-sex attraction has a treatable condition&rdquo; and &ldquo;there is hope for those who want to overcome these destructive behaviors.&rdquo;</p>
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Ohio Senator Rob Portman has announced that he supports so-called &ldquo;gay&rdquo; marriage. Why? Because his son told him he was &ldquo;gay&rdquo; two years ago.<br />
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According to Portman, he talked this over with former Vice President Dick Cheney (who has a lesbian daughter) and his pastor and has concluded that &ldquo;love&rdquo; and &ldquo;compassion&rdquo; taught in the Bible compels him to accept homosexuality and his &ldquo;gay&rdquo; son.<br />
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Portman has conveniently ignored the warnings against the sin of homosexuality in both the Old and New Testaments &ndash; and is accepting a behavior that may eventually kill his son from AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, or oral cancer.<br />
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Homosexual sex is ultimately just as destructive as cocaine use. Would Portman suddenly call for the legalization of cocaine if his son had announced that he was a cocaine addict? Would that be &ldquo;loving&rdquo; and &ldquo;compassionate&rdquo;?<br />
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Will Portman support &ldquo;group&rdquo; marriage &ndash; which is the next phase of the gay agenda?<br />
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What if his son had announced that he&rsquo;s really a girl trapped inside a boy&rsquo;s body &ndash; and wanted a &ldquo;sex change&rdquo; operation? Would Portman support his son&rsquo;s mutilation of his male body to become a fake female? How would that be loving?<br />
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Or, what if his son had been involved in insider trading and ripped off thousands of investors? Would he support his son&rsquo;s behavior and call for the legalization of insider trading?<br />
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What sort of core values motivate a U.S. Senator to change his mind about a sexually destructive behavior simply because his son is involved in it? What will happen to Rob Portman&rsquo;s belief system when he discovers that his son is infected with HIV or throat cancer?<br />
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A person with a same-sex attraction has a treatable condition. No one is &ldquo;born gay&rdquo; and there is hope for those who want to overcome these destructive behaviors.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Ex-GayGovernment is Not God William Murray Fighting the Right42462Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:45:01 -0500William Murray Religious Right Reacts to Sandy Hook Shooting by Blaming Lack of Government-Dictated School Prayerhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/religious-right-reacts-sandy-hook-shooting-blaming-lack-government-dictated-school-prayer
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<p><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-didnt-stop-ct-school-shooting-because-hes-gentleman-who-doesnt-go-where-he-not-w">Bryan Fischer</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/12/14/huckabee-schools-become-a-place-of-carnage-when/191864">Mike Huckabee</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-connecticut-shooting-was-god-allowing-judgment-fall-upon-us-turning-our-back-him">James Dobson</a>&rsquo;s claims that the school shooting in Connecticut represents God&rsquo;s judgment on the U.S. are no anomalies. Indeed, many other Religious Right commentators have also claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting is part of divine punishment.</p>
<p>David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/12/15/sandy-hook-shooting-is-it-about-banning-guns-or-banning.aspx">defended</a> Fischer and Huckabee&rsquo;s statements that the prohibition on state-mandated school prayer was responsible for the shootings:</p>
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Guess what folks? Huckabee and Fischer are not alone. There are millions of evangelicals who believe the same thing. This is not heartless. It&rsquo;s based on the biblical principle of reaping and sowing. Not that these little children sowed anything but are our schools left unprotected because of the past actions of our nation when it comes to removing God from our public schools?<br />
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The conversation is now all about banning guns but should the conversation really be about allowing God back into public schools? Food for thought. It's a discussion worth having.</blockquote>
<p>Connecticut Pastor Clive Calver in <em>Charisma</em> similarly <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/34955-could-connecticut-school-shooting-wake-up-the-church-in-new-england">argued</a> that the shooting is a &ldquo;wake-up call&rdquo; from God to secular New Englanders:</p>
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Our prayer is that this evil, this unspeakable horror, would be the turning point for what God is doing in New England. We&rsquo;ve spent the last nearly eight years here, breaking up the land and laying seed for a harvest&mdash;or revival in New England.<br />
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Maybe, just maybe, this is the wake-up call. Maybe, just maybe, this is when the church springs into action, being the hands and feet of Jesus and shining His light in this darkness. People here need Jesus and it&rsquo;s our job to introduce Him to them.</blockquote>
<p><em>Charisma</em>&rsquo;s news editor Jennifer LeClaire maintained that state-sponsored prayers in public schools &ldquo;<a href="http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/34957-can-we-please-put-prayer-back-in-schools-now">could have prevented</a>&rdquo; the shooting:</p>
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But if God is for us, who can be against us? I believe God has been waiting for His people to rise up with a unified voice of righteousness against the immorality in this nation. I believe God has been patient through our prayerlessness. And I believe if we set our hearts toward reinstituting Christian prayer in schools it could help fuel the prophesied Great Awakening in this generation.<br />
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Some experts are reporting that nothing could have prevented the Newtown school shooting. Again, I beg to differ. I think prayer could have prevented it. And I think reinstating prayer in public schools can prevent the next mass murdering from stepping foot on campus and prematurily ending more innocent lives.<br />
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So, in the wake of yet another tragedy, can we please put prayer back in schools now?</blockquote>
<p>William Murray of Government Is Not God PAC also <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/newtown-carnage-blame-church-not-god-or-guns/#1ELzAbD2VI83kE0H.99">said</a> the lack of government-dictated prayer in public schools is to blame:</p>
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In the vast majority of America&rsquo;s public schools, the authority of God has been replaced with the authority of the iron fist of government. Morals? Without the authority of God, there are no morals, and none are taught in the public schools today. The ethics that are taught are situational, perhaps the same situational ethics that led to the logic that caused the tragic shootings in Newtown.</blockquote>
<p>WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/expect-more-sandy-hooks-not-fewer/#JLrwQGiM1Bcuyjw8.99">claimed</a> the shooting was God&rsquo;s judgment over America&rsquo;s &ldquo;abandonment of God and His righteous laws&rdquo; and for apparently following the path of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union:</p>
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But, of course, that&rsquo;s just a Band-Aid on a culture mortally wounded by its abandonment of God and His righteous laws.<br />
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And that&rsquo;s why we all need to expect more Sandy Hooks, not fewer.<br />
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What should we expect when we not only prohibit weapons of self-defense in our schools, but when we banish the Creator from them?<br />
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Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that removed prayer from the public schools of America. Just look what has happened since. It&rsquo;s not that God is exacting punishment on America as a result. He is giving America over to the desires of its wicked heart.<br />
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Think of the societies and governments that have chosen this path before us &ndash; Hitler&rsquo;s Germany, Stalin&rsquo;s Soviet Union, Mao&rsquo;s China. Were those societies better off as a result? Or were their judgments quickened? Did the bloodshed cease? Or did it increase beyond the imagination of anyone except the tyrants who imposed it?<br />
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I don&rsquo;t fear guns. But I do fear the wrath of a God who turns His back on a nation like America has turned its back on Him.<br />
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How many more Sandy Hooks do we need to see before we realize something has gone very wrong in America?</blockquote>
Brian TashmanDavid Brody Government is Not God Jennifer LeClaireJoseph Farah Sandy HookWilliam Murray WorldNetDaily C3CharismaChristian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right41773Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:00:59 -0500William Murray Murray: Obama Channeling Hitler and Creating 'Unholy Alliances with Evil'http://www.pfaw.org/content/murray-obama-hitler-unholy-alliances-evil
<p>After warning that government programs like Social Security <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality">turn people gay</a>, Government Is Not God PAC head William Murray writes in<em><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/how-gop-can-win-food-stamp-americans/"> WorldNetDaily </a></em>today that President Obama is using Adolf Hitler as a model to pursue his &ldquo;false Garden of Eden on Earth.&rdquo; He says that just as Hitler used money stolen from Jews he sent to death camps to fund his war effort, Obama is trying to raise taxes on the rich to build a &ldquo;culture of dependency.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Murray also claims that Obama is targeting Jews and Christians because their faiths are getting in the way of his attempt to grow the size of government, while supposedly aiding Muslims, &ldquo;radical environmentalists, Christian-hating atheists, homosexual radicals&rdquo; and liberals. As Democrats put together &ldquo;unholy alliances with evil,&rdquo; Murray warns that if conservatives don&rsquo;t embrace anti-choice and anti-gay positions then the U.S. will face God&rsquo;s judgment.</p>
<blockquote> President Barack Hussein Obama has a vision of an American utopia not of equal opportunity, but of centrally planned equal outcomes. Many refer to Obama as a socialist or even a communist, but those are just two of the roads politicians in the past have chosen to create their vision of a centrally planned utopia state, or a false Garden of Eden on Earth. Adolf Hitler is most often referred to as a fascist, but he was also one of the foremost central planners and utopianists in history. He called his brand of utopianism &ldquo;national socialism.&rdquo;<br />
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Central-planning attempts at creating a utopia have always been paid for with stolen money, and most have lasted only until the stolen money was all spent. Hitler, for example, was indeed anti-Semitic, but his hatred of the Jews had practical applications as well. He stole the homes, furniture, jewels, money and even gold teeth of the Jews he killed to finance his thousand-year utopian dream that lasted less than three decades and caused the deaths of tens of millions and the destruction of entire cities. He ran out of stolen money to finance his war machine and bring his utopian dream to the world. Toward the end he even tried to trade the Hungarian Jews who were still alive to the Allies for cash.<br />
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To create the &ldquo;common good&rdquo; and have &ldquo;economic equality,&rdquo; a central government must &ldquo;plan.&rdquo; Barack Hussein Obama has vastly increased government to expand the central planning that already existed, thanks to both political parties. His version of central planning covers everything from &ldquo;green energy&rdquo; to forcing religious institutions to pay for contraceptives and abortions. His utopian central-planning czars want to control our energy use, our diets and our incomes. Next government will tell us where and when we can talk about our faith in the Lord.<br />
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There is freedom in central planning, but as F.A. Hayek pointed out in his famous book &ldquo;Road to Serfdom,&rdquo; it is the &ldquo;unlimited freedom of the planner to do with the society what he pleases.&rdquo; Judeo-Christianity, which emphasizes the freedom of the individual under a supreme God, is not compatible with a central planner&rsquo;s visions of a society in which &ldquo;all gods are equal&rdquo; under government. On the planet Barack Hussein Obama comes from, his vision of social good comes first, and all religions &ndash; except Islam &ndash; must conform to the centrally planned society. Individual freedom is not possible in a centrally planned society.<br />
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The nation has gone past the tipping point. There are simply not enough people paying income taxes to get majority public support for this position. Obama is robbing Peter to pay Paul, as mentioned above. All those &ldquo;Pauls,&rdquo; plus the radical environmentalists, Christian-hating atheists, homosexual radicals and nutty rich liberals like Warren Buffet came together to vote for Obama and keep Harry Reid in charge of the Senate. The Republicans desperately need social conservatives, yet are now ignoring our issues. <br />
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Not even a month has passed since the election, and the GOP establishment is distancing itself from social conservative leaders. These establishment guys really believe that telling the 50 percent of the adults who pay no income tax at all that they are going to reduce spending and cut taxes is going to get them elected. How? People on food stamps are not going to vote for the GOP if the social issues are tossed in the trash. And meanwhile, the Democrats are proud of their stance on social issues. Democratic congressmen ride in &ldquo;gay&rdquo; parades and help women get to abortion clinics. Most Republicans hide on the day of the Right to Life march in January.<br />
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Many of those who pay no taxes at all and receive government assistance vote for Republican candidates because they are pro-life and pro-traditional family. Is such a family on food stamps going to vote for a Republican who both supports same-sex marriage and wants to cut food stamps? The same family will, however, vote for a strong social conservative.<br />
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Democrats are proud of their unholy alliances with evil, but the Republican establishment is ashamed of their moral allies who stand with the Bible. Thankfully, there are more than 100 members of Congress in the Congressional Prayer Caucus that social conservative leaders like me can continue to work with.<br />
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The GOP establishment needs to get some Old Time Religion!<br />
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Yes, the nation needs low taxes for economic growth, but our nation also needs to be right in the eyes of God. America cannot at the same time kill over 1 million babies a year, mock the Bible with same-sex marriage and bow to the false god of Islam throughout the world, without receiving God&rsquo;s judgment. </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Government is Not God William Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right41684Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:20:02 -0500William Murray William Murray: Social Security Launched the 'War on the Traditional Family' and Increased the rate of Homosexualityhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality
<p>William Murray&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-obama-jihad-against-jews-christians">anti-Obama campaign</a> through his Government Is Not God PAC failed to defeat the President, and so he took to <em><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-real-winner-of-election-dependency/">WorldNetDaily</a></em> today to blame Obama&rsquo;s victory on &ldquo;millions of votes from people who have little command of the English language&rdquo; and the government providing &ldquo;school lunch for millions of kids.&rdquo; He said that the real problem in America all goes back to Social Security, which he claims &ldquo;has harmed both the family and social fabric&rdquo; and launched &ldquo;the war on the traditional family.&rdquo;</p>
<p>By dramatically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)#Improved_income_status_of_the_aged">reducing poverty</a> among seniors, Murray argues that Social Security and Medicare allowed young people to &ldquo;financially abandon their parents&rdquo; and have &ldquo;more money to spend on everything from booze to cars to Chinese-made clothes.&rdquo; He goes on to claim that Social Security&rsquo;s devastating impact on morality increased rates of drug use and has meant that &ldquo;more children are born out of wedlock&rdquo; and that &ldquo;more young men destroy their lives in homosexuality.&rdquo;</p>
<blockquote> Social Security is the &ldquo;third rail&rdquo; of politics. It is a tremendously popular program not only with seniors but with their children as well. Social Security provides a safety net for the elderly but also reduces the burden on younger Americans to care for elderly parents. Unfortunately, Social Security has become an excuse for many children to financially abandon their parents. This has harmed both the family and social fabric.<br />
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The war on the traditional family began with President Franklin Roosevelt&rsquo;s Social Security and other programs. One of the main reasons for marriages staying together was maintaining homes and wealth for old age. With the promise of government retirement money, many marriages could be walked away from for some very frivolous reasons. The divorce rates climbed as Social Security and other government benefits increased.<br />
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With many elders taken care of by the government, younger Americans could spend their money on themselves. Social Security and other benefits provided by government encouraged people to borrow and spend rather than to save. With a promise of government payouts to come in the future, the savings rate in the nation dropped to zero.<br />
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In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson&rsquo;s &ldquo;War on Poverty&rdquo; started providing &ldquo;poor children&rdquo; and &ldquo;single mothers&rdquo; with government benefits. A second front was opened up against the traditional family. Now the government paid women with children not to marry. With the advent of Medicare for the aging and SCHIP to provide medical care for children in homes with incomes of up to four times the level of poverty, younger adults had even more money to spend on everything from booze to cars to Chinese-made clothes. The more adults were freed from the financial responsibilities of family life by government, the more families began to deteriorate.<br />
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When government rather than the family becomes the main provider, people see fewer practical reasons for morality. More adults live together without benefit of marriage. More children are born out of wedlock. More young men destroy their lives in homosexuality. Drug use destroys the will to work and the will to live. And government finances it all, but at a cost to the future. Benefit payments are so high that basic government services are not affordable. </blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Government is Not God William Murray WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right41548Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:45:00 -0500William Murray Has the Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated the Romney Campaign?http://www.pfaw.org/content/has-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrated-romney-campaign
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<p>Anti-Muslim activists on the Right have consistently warned that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration. But if their unhinged McCarthyism is to be believed, then Mitt Romney&rsquo;s campaign has been penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood as well, as Romney&rsquo;s campaign has named George Salem, Samah Norquist and David Ramadan &ldquo;<a href="http://www.aaiusa.org/blog/entry/romney-campaign-announces-arab-americans-for-romney/">National Co-Chairs of Arab Americans for Romney</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Pamela Geller <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/mitch-daniels-honored-by-notorious-jew-hating-supremacist-organization-aai.html">labeled</a> George Salem&rsquo;s Arab American Institute a &ldquo;nototrious anti-Israel Israel [sic] organization&rdquo; composed of &ldquo;Islamic supremacists&rdquo; and led by a &ldquo;Jew hater.&rdquo; She even suggested that the AAI seeks &ldquo;<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/01/george-mitchell-the-jihad-choice.html">Jewish annihilation</a>&rdquo; by backing Mideast peace efforts.</p>
<p>Geller, Frank Gaffney, Robert Spencer, William Murray, Andrea and James Lafferty and others sent a <a href="http://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments.2011/MeeseRelease.Lafferty.html">letter</a> to Edwin Meese demanding he withdraw his endorsement of Virginia Del. David Ramadan because of his purported ties to Muammar Gadaffi and &ldquo;radical views,&rdquo; including his support for the right to build the Park 51 Islamic Community Center. James Lafferty <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/virginia-delegate-hopeful-makes-mistake-running-office-while-muslim">said</a> Ramadan is an &ldquo;extremist&rdquo; who should not even &ldquo;be allowed to continue to live in the United States,&rdquo; and Geller said he is a &ldquo;<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/meese-fleeced-ramadanss-deceit.html">stealth jihadist</a>&rdquo; and a &ldquo;<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/meese-fleeced-ramadanss-deceit.html">Muslim Brotherhood plant</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Perhaps no chair of Romney&rsquo;s committee is despised more than Samah Norquist, wife of conservative leader Grover Norquist. Glenn Beck and Jerry Boykin have said that Norquist is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-grover-norquist-muslim-brotherhood-facilitator">lackey for the Muslim Brotherhood</a> and according to anti-Muslim activists like Gaffney and David Horowitz, Norquist <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/horowitz-abedin-hiss-norquist-muslim-subverting">secretly converted to Islam</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-claims-grover-norquist-helping-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrate-conservative-move">joined the Muslim Brotherhood</a> at the behest of his wife. Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell wrote in a <a href="http://de.scribd.com/doc/81353264/Letter-From-Cleta-Mitchell-To-ACU-Board-On-Frank-Gaffney-s-Allegations-Against-Norquist-And-Kahn">report</a> for the American Conservative Union that she is &ldquo;certain that Mr. Gaffney&rsquo;s hatred [for Norquist] is further fueled by the fact that Grover is married to a Muslim-American woman (who also has worked for the United States government in very responsible positions, I might add!).&rdquo;</p>
<p>Of course, these spurious claims against Ramadan, Norquist and Salem are just as baseless and wrong as their attacks against the Obama administration and the Muslim-Americans serving in it.</p>
<p>But while extremists like Geller, Gaffney, Horowitz and others are quick to attack Obama with such bogus charges, <a href="http://www.splicd.com/MrqSBLa3raI/117/168">for some reason it seems unlikely Romney will receive similar treatment</a>.</p>Brian TashmanAndrea Lafferty Anti-MuslimC4David Horowitz David RamadanFrank Gaffney Grover Norquist James Lafferty Jerry BoykinMitt RomneyPamela GellerRobert SpencerWilliam Murray Glenn BeckFighting the Right41307Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:45:32 -0500William Murray William Murray: Obama is Waging a 'Jihad against Non-Islamic Religious Groups – Both Jews and Christians'http://www.pfaw.org/content/murray-obama-jihad-against-jews-christians
<p>Religious Right activist William Murray, who leads both the Religious Freedom Coalition and the Government Is Not God Political Action Committee (GING-PAC), is using GING-PAC to post advertisements in <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/obama4andoutadcopy">newspapers</a> across swing states. <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/obama4andout">According to Murray</a>, &ldquo;Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton love the Muslim Brotherhood&rdquo; and &ldquo;Obama is carrying on what amounts to a Jihad against non-Islamic religious groups &ndash; both Jews and Christians.&rdquo; &ldquo;Obama is waging a war on religious liberty,&rdquo; Murray writes, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s stopped waging a war on Islamic terrorism here and around the globe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.gingpac.org/obama4andout">fundraising solicitation</a> for the newspaper advertisements [<a href="http://www.gingpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/GINGadFinal.pdf">PDF</a>], which warn that Obama will force chaplains to perform same-sex marriages and bring Sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood into government, Murray claims that Obama will use &ldquo;voter fraud so they can stay in power&rdquo; and pursue &ldquo;his unrestrained support for radical Islam.&rdquo; Murray calls Obama a &ldquo;dangerous racist&rdquo; and the &ldquo;most racially divisive&rdquo; president in American history who is out to destroy the country.</p>
<blockquote> GING-PAC needs your help to stop him from winning another four years in the White House &ndash; where he will continue his aggressive assault on religious liberty &ndash; and his unrestrained support for radical Islam &ndash; both here in the U.S. and around the globe.<br />
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You can help us run newspaper advertisements in key states to defeat Barack Obama&rsquo;s anti-religious, pro-Islamist agenda in November! <br />
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We are less than 90 days before the most important election in the history of our nation since 1865! A lot is at stake! And I&rsquo;m sure you understand the severity of what we are facing!<br />
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Clearly, Obama is the most dangerous racist, pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-Islam and anti-capitalist president who has ever occupied the White House &ndash; and he&rsquo;ll try any dirty trick in the book to win this November&rsquo;s election. That&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s got Attorney General Eric Holder suing states that are trying to implement voter ID laws. Obama and Holder want voter fraud so they can stay in power.<br />
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Holder is suing states trying to have honest elections &ndash; but he dropped the serious case of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther party who were intimidating white voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 election!<br />
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Obama is not only the most viciously anti-religious president in history, but he&rsquo;s turning out to be the most racially divisive one as well. In fact, he seems to deliberately try to provoke racial animosity. When he was running for office in 2008, he claimed to be a post-racial candidate. He lied.<br />
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Once he&rsquo;s back in office, he&rsquo;ll be totally unrestrained in his plans to bring our nation to moral and economic ruin. He&rsquo;s already done a pretty good job. Imagine what he&rsquo;ll do in four more years. </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Election 2012Government is Not God William Murray Fighting the Right41077Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:50:45 -0500William Murray William Murray Blames Gay Diplomats for Turmoil in the Middle Easthttp://www.pfaw.org/content/william-murray-blames-gay-diplomats-turmoil-middle-east
<p>William Murray of the Religious Freedom Coalition not only told the American Family Association&rsquo;s Sandy Rios that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-bush-peace-ten-years">Islam is not a religion</a>, but also that the U.S. fails to understand Muslims because our diplomats are homosexual elitists. Murray, who in 2009 maintained that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">gays cause train crashes</a>, alleged that since Libya Ambassador Christopher Stevens &ldquo;was probably a homosexual&rdquo; and that &ldquo;many of the diplomats&rdquo; the State Department sends to the Middle East &ldquo;are homosexuals,&rdquo; they are unable to understand the violent nature of Islam since they only &ldquo;deal with people on an elite level that aren&rsquo;t really truly Muslims.&rdquo; He argued that Muslims who don&rsquo;t engage in violence are actually &ldquo;apostates&rdquo; and faithful Muslims are violent, lamenting that &ldquo;we send nutcases over there who are dealing with apostate Muslims and then they report back&rdquo; that Islam is a peaceful religion. Later, Murray said that unless the U.S. changes our views on Islam &ldquo;there is no way we can survive...without tremendous losses.&rdquo;</p>
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<blockquote><strong>Murray</strong>: The problem is the core of Islam. This is what it teaches and to say that this is a small number of people&mdash;no, the small number of people are the ones that are peaceful in Islam and they&rsquo;re apostates, they aren&rsquo;t true believers. But those are the ones that our elites are used to doing business with, those are the ones that the businessmen in the West, they&rsquo;re dealing with the apostates; our politicians, our ambassadors are dealing with the apostates. Look at Christopher Stevens, the ambassador that was killed, he was probably a homosexual. Many of the diplomats, the State Department diplomats that I meet with in the Middle East when I go are homosexuals. When I went to the Jordanian embassy a few years ago the ambassador took the group of us that were there on a fact-finding mission and he wanted a picture of us with him in front of a rainbow colored flag, not the US flag. We send people there and they deal with people on an elite level that aren&rsquo;t really truly Muslims, we send nutcases over there who are dealing with apostate Muslims and then they report back that this is Islam. This is not Islam. What Islam teaches is what is being dealt in the streets.<br />
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<strong>Rios</strong>: One last question Bill, the question that you do address in this article, can we survive four more years of this treatment toward Islam, our attitude toward Islam, the way we&rsquo;re managing the world on this issue, can we survive it?<br />
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<strong>Murray</strong>: No. There is no way we can survive four more years of this kind of weakness, not without tremendous losses. At some point, showing this kind of weakness, dominoes are going to fall in the Middle East and the oil supply is going to be history. The only good thing about that is we actually have more oil than the rest of the world, maybe we&rsquo;ll finally be forced to extract our own oil.</blockquote>
<p>His remarks were not that different from those of AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer, who similarly argued without any evidence that Stevens was gay and &ldquo;so it is no wonder that he was sexually molested.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>In an article for <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/how-obama-encourages-islamic-violence/"><em>World Net Daily</em></a>, Murray said &ldquo;violence is simply rooted in the teachings of Islam&rdquo; and that Obama is bringing in Muslim immigrants to reshape the &ldquo;Bible Belt.&rdquo; The Democratic Party, he suggested, has garnered Arab-American supporters because it is willing to help them &ldquo;reshape [America] into a Muslim state under Shariah law.&rdquo;</p>
<blockquote> Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have the liberal mindsets that bring nations to war. The attitude of appeasement and surrender always ends in conflict. Instead of fighting radical Islam, the Obama administration has stepped up immigration for Muslims to the United States, using Bible Belt cities like Nashville and Atlanta as hubs. <br />
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The liberals believe that bringing Muslims to America will cause them to be moderate and change their Islamic beliefs. Muslims are not going to change the words within the Quran to satisfy the liberal mindset of the American establishment or the editors of the New York Times. Immigration to America will not change devout Muslims who are commanded by their religion not to integrate. At the Democratic National Convention it was the &ldquo;Arab-American&rdquo; section that booed the loudest when &ldquo;God&rdquo; was introduced back into that party&rsquo;s platform. Most real Arab-Americans are Christians who have fled Muslim persecution and were not represented at the Democratic convention. <br />
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The 100 Muslim delegates to the convention wore &ldquo;Arab-American&rdquo; T-shirts, but the reality is they do not want to be part of this nation; they want to reshape it into a Muslim state under Shariah law. Most Muslims in this nation see Obama as their hope to achieve that end.<br />
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Can America survive another four years of Barack Hussein Obama&rsquo;s appeasement of radical Islam? Because of the increased proliferation of nuclear arms to insane Islamic regimes such as those in Pakistan and Iran, the answer is no.</blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-GayAnti-MuslimC4IslamReligious Freedom CoalitionSandy Rios William Murray Fighting the Right41045Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:00:12 -0500William Murray Sandy Rios: Bush Gave Us Middle East 'Peace for Ten Years'http://www.pfaw.org/content/sandy-rios-bush-peace-ten-years
<p>American Family Association radio host and Fox News contributor Sandy Rios <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491277&tab=audio&audio=2147527135">spoke</a> today with William Murray of the Religious Freedom Coalition and blamed the current turmoil in the Middle East on both Islam and the Obama administration. Rios blasted Obama supporters for claiming that George W. Bush left him an economic crisis while refusing to admit that Bush &ldquo;left them peace, he left them peace for ten years,&rdquo; and now &ldquo;we are reaping the bitter fruits of chaos not only in the Middle East but in the world at large because we have not been dealing with them with strength&rdquo; like Bush did.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Rios</strong>: The problem with Islam, and we know this Bill, I would like to say, in fact I was going to write this article and I&rsquo;ll just spill the beans on the air and that is they keep talking about what George Bush left this president and they&rsquo;re talking about the horrible economy and what a mess he left and they haven&rsquo;t been able to even turn it around in four years because it&rsquo;s horrendous. But I&rsquo;ll tell you what else he left them; he left them peace, he left them peace for ten years. And now that&rsquo;s going ragged because we have been operating under Obama&rsquo;s policies for the last four years and we are reaping the bitter fruits of chaos not only in the Middle East but in the world at large because we have not been dealing with them with strength.</blockquote>
<p>Murray later agreed with the charge that Islam is not a religion, but as Rios floated, a &ldquo;dangerous, fascist political system.&rdquo; Ironically, the Religious Right activists said that since some Muslims believe that Islam is a political ideology, therefore Islam should not be considered a religion.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Rios</strong>: There are some people who are saying very strongly that Islam should no longer be considered a religion, that that is causing the confusion, it should characterized as a political system, a dangerous, fascist political system and not a religion. How would we make that distinction and do you agree?<br />
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<strong>Murray</strong>: It is a socio-political system; there is absolutely no doubt about that. If something comes along and says it is a religion but it has to control all aspects of government, fi something controls all aspects of government it simply is not a religion. The problem that we have in the West and it&rsquo;s a matter of definition, and it comes out of early Christian persecution in the early Roman Empire, is that anybody that says they are anything automatically is.</blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-MuslimC4IslamReligious Freedom CoalitionSandy Rios William Murray Fighting the Right41044Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:30:35 -0500William Murray Santorum Wins Backing of Fringe Religious Right Leadershttp://www.pfaw.org/content/santorum-wins-backing-fringe-religious-right-leaders
<p>One day before the crucial South Carolina primary, Rick Santorum is beginning to win the endorsements of not just Religious Right luminaries but also fringe activists, including some who previously backed the failed presidential campaigns of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Santorum recently won the backing of Religious Right activists such as James Dobson, Gary Bauer, Richard Viguerie, Maggie Gallagher, Penny Nance and most recently, former Perry booster John Stemberger.</p>
<p>Today, Viguerie <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6210018739.html">released</a> the names of additional Religious Right figures that are supporting Santorum, including <a href="http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=19113">Paul Pressler</a>, the Southern Baptist leader who hosted the recent Texas meeting of social conservatives.</p>
<p>But other Santorum endorsers are less well-known:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/cathie-adams">Cathie Adams</a> of the Texas Eagle Forum, who has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-eagle-forum-president-becomes-head-texas-gop">likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler</a>, warned that scientists are cloning humans <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-eagle-forum-president-becomes-head-texas-gop">in order to give them diseases and kill them</a> and that the United Nations is trying to &ldquo;subvert our children&rsquo;s faith in God by elevating its earth-centered zealotry that would <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eagle-forum-un-using-environmentalism-remove-god-and-take-over-world">grant the UN dominion over the earth</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/elaine-donnelly">Elaine Donnelly</a> of the Center for Military Readiness, who has dedicated her career to fighting the rights of gays and lesbians to serve&nbsp;openly in the military, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/donnelly-and-kincaid-keep-%E2%80%9Cdraft%E2%80%9D-drumbeat-after-senate-passes-dadt-repeal">argued</a>&nbsp;that it would lead to a draft along with &ldquo;forcible sodomy.&rdquo; &nbsp;</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-panics-over-marriage-equality">William Estrada</a> of Generation Joshua, the homeschooler activist who hopes that young people will <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-panics-over-marriage-equality">lead the fight against marriage equality</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/joseph-farah">Joseph Farah</a> of WorldNetDaily, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-and-sheriff-joes-very-profitable-birther-investigation">birther movement leader</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/12/06/farah-prays-for-a-michele-miracle/">onetime Bachmann supporter</a> who wants to see Obama &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joseph-farah-wishes-president-obama-happy-birthday">frog-marched down Pennsylvania Avenue</a>&rdquo; and an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-marriage-equality-will-plunge-america-moral-abyss-chaos-and-barbarism">unfailing</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-gays-and-radical-muslims-working-together-destroy-america">critic</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-speaking-goproud-addressing-kkk">of</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-united-states-should-break-over-marriage-equality"> equal</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-criminalize-homosexuality-just-murder-child-molestation">rights</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dadt-defenders-desperate-last-stand-keep-ban-intel-leaker-was-gay">for</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd%E2%80%99s-farah-praises-%E2%80%9Cpink-swastika%E2%80%9D-warns-gay-rights-could-lead-nazism">gays</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/farah-%E2%80%9Cpurge%E2%80%9D-conservative-movement-gays-and-gay-rights-supporters">and</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-outrages-right-saying-gay-marriage-poses-no-threat">lesbians</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.pafamily.org/index.php?pID=25">Michael Geer</a> of the Pennsylvania Family Institute who has crusaded against marriage equality, calling it a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2011/01/audio-what-michael-geers-art-of-marriage-means-for-us.html">tragedy</a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/rebecca-hagelin">Rebecca Hagelin</a>, formerly of the Heritage Foundation, who derided gays as <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagelin-gay-rights-advocates-schoolyard-bullies">&ldquo;bullies&rdquo; and &ldquo;power-mongers,&rdquo;</a> cautioning that gay rights leads to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-warns-gay-rights-absolutely-destroys-morality">pedophilia and &ldquo;chaos.&rdquo;</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/09/21/324005/tea-party-supports-repealing-gay-education-in-ca-because-constitution-not-taught-enough-says-right-wing-leader/">Tim Lefever</a> of the Capitol Resource Institute, who said that Californians should repeal SB48, which ensures students learn about LGBT historical figures...<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/09/21/324005/tea-party-supports-repealing-gay-education-in-ca-because-constitution-not-taught-enough-says-right-wing-leader/">because it undermines lessons in the Constitution</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/william-murray">William Murray</a> of the Religious Freedom Coalition, who ironically was a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/even-religious-freedom-coalition-opposes-park-51">fierce opponent</a> of the construction of the Park 51 Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero, and suggested that a train crash happened because&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">the negligent engineer was ga</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">y</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://christiannewswire.com/news/535756831.html">Preston Noell III</a> of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, Property, a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/why-didnt-tfp-call-cavalry">pseudo-military</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/giant-ads-recruit-religious-war-against-gay-marriage">extremist</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tfp-releases-new-report-pro-homosexual-clubs-dictatorship-tolerance">anti-gay</a> group linked to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-abandons-brooklyn-museum-protests-%E2%80%93-anti-da-vinci-code-group-and-pro-censors">Brazilian neo-fascists</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/pam-olsen">Pam Olsen</a> of the Florida Prayer Network and the International House of Prayer&rsquo;s Tallahassee branch, is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-rick-perrys-radical-leadership-team-co-chair">former Perry campaign activist</a> who <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnu6DMJhSo&feature=player_embedded">advocates Seven Mountain dominionism, plans to raise people from the dead</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qRb7DxP54es">believes that gay rights cause natural disasters</a>:<br />
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<p>All in all, about the people you would expect to endorse Rick Santorum.</p>Brian TashmanCathie AdamsElaine Donnelly Election 2012Joseph Farah Pam OlsenRebecca Hagelin Richard Viguerie Rick Santorum Tim LefeverWilliam Murray 28667Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:30:50 -0500William Murray